improving online upgrade situation [was Re: CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!]

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:29:36AM -0400, Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> I'm very interested in helping improve the upgrade situation (and 
> especially "online upgrades").  Several of us had a good chat in 
> #fedora-devel last week about it; I still haven't got around to writing up 
> that summary, but it's still on the radar.

One good first step would be to search anaconda for all of its crufty
special-case upgrade code, and create an upgrade-cruft plugin for yum which
replicates that logic.

Then, eventually, anaconda itself can use that plugin as well.



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